The EPA has denied an objection filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council to a 2008 agency order regarding pesticide tolerances for the insecticide dichlorvos or DDVP. Previously, in June 2006, NRDC filed a petition requesting that the EPA revoke all DDVP tolerances, or maximum residue limits in food. The EPA denied NRDC’s petition as well as NRDC’s objections to the agency’s decision to deny NRDC’s petition.

Concluding a lengthy administrative process, the EPA’s recent order upholds the agency’s original finding that DDVP tolerances meet the safety standard of the FFDCA and protect the safety of infants and children.